This is a desktop applet for superkaramba that displays weather information and forecasts.

VERSIONS >= 12.0 REQUIRE SUPERKARAMBA V0.39, PYQT and IMAGEMAGICK

OLDER VERSIONS THAT WORK WITH EARLIER SUPERKARAMBA RELEASES ARE STILL AVAILABLE ON THE DOWNLOADS SECTION ON MY SITE
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You can click on the weather images to get more detail about the forecast for that day, or the current weather conditions. To install, just untar the tarball, where you keep your other superkaramba themes. Then run with the command:

superkaramba /path/to/themes/liquid_weather.theme

or launch from the superkaramba gui.

Go to the homepage, to get information on how to use the theme - there's a full manual/faq page there.

Features:

- Weather forecasts from weather.com or BBC or Accuweather for most cities/locations worldwide.
- Details of current conditions.
- Daily forecasts and weather details for today and the following 4 days.
- Hourly forecasts for the next 12 hours, if using weather.com as a data source.
- Set multiple cities for easy access.
- Moon phases if using weather.com as a data source.
- All sorts of different weather maps for all major world regions, including antarctica.
- Latest worldwide earthquake data.
- Notification of major storms (ie hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons) - NB don't rely on these when your personal safety is involved.
- View up to 5 web cams.
- All data updates automatically every 1, 2 or 3 hours.
- Multiple background and icon themes.
- Translated into 24 languages.
- Export forecasts via email or printer.
- Gui configuration for everything through the configuration menu.

Currently, I have good translators keeping the German, Italian, French, Finnish, Polish and Dutch translations up to date. I need translators for the other languages that are starting to get out of date, or who can do new languages. If you can help out, please email me - this is an easy way for non-coders to help out.

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POST BUGS ON THE FORUMS ON MY WEBSITE
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There are now forums on my website. The format on the forums is far easier to navigate than the comments section here, and it's fully searchable. Please use the forums for discussing liquid weather/posting bugs, as it makes it easier for others to find fixes, and makes it easier for me to keep track of things.

Matt

Changelog:

1 June 2008

I've added a new iconset - called "Sticker". A simple icon theme with nice gradients. Check it out on the "Addons" page on http://liquidweather.net

24 May 2008

There is now a Mandriva rpm for liquidweather. Link on the download page on my site. I don't do Mandriva, so haven't tested it, so don't blame me if it's broken :-)

18 May 2008

In addition to fixing the weather.com issue in the latest version, I've now also fixed the last "old" version that worked with SK 0.38 and 0.39 - so you can now also download version 11.3 from the website as well.

17 May 2008

... and we're back. weather.com xml data feed should be fixed with this version :-)

11 May 2008

***WEATHER.COM DATA FEED IS BROKEN***

For some reason, weather.com has stopped providing data via my xml subscription. I am going to email them to find out what's going on. Hopefully this will be fixed shortly.

14.8

This release sees the addition of a simplified and traditional Chinese translation thanks to David Peng. I've also fixed the bug with the German translation.

14.7

The BBC parsing engine is broken. BBC changed their html. I have temporarily disabled BBC in the config dialog until fixed. If anyone wants to have a go at fixing it, feel free.

I've also added a Hindi translation thanks to Abhay.

14.6.1

A fix for a minor translation bug.

14.6

This release sees a new default background theme - I think it's very professional looking. It's called Black Cutouts - see the screenshots above. In addition, there are a number of bug fixes, that have been laying dormant for a while:

* Fixed a networking bug that meant that downloading data failed when first opening the theme - I can't believe more people haven't reported this bug - it's a major.

* Text resizing in the detail panel now works properly for the "emerge text" animation.

* Fixed a but with the daily forecast panel not opening and closing properly after repeated operation.

* Other minor tidy ups.

New Iconset

I've released a new iconset. Nice simple wireart icons. Check the "addons" page on the liquidweather website (link below).

14.5

More bug fixes:

* Error message popups are now translated
* Fixed a bug that corrupted the locations list when locations were deleted from the saved locations list in the config dialog
* Updates to the following translations:
o Italian
o French
o German
o Polish
o Latvian
o Swedish
o Romanian
o Serbian(Cyr)
o Serbian(Lat)

Matt

License:Everything is GPL, EXCEPT FOR some of the icon sets, which are distributed with the permission of their authors.

Kurdish translation

Hi,
I've finished translating liquid weather into kurdish. Can anybody give me some advice on how to integrate it into Liquid Weather. It's a *.po file and I think it has to be a *.mo file to be able to use it for liquid weather.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Matt

KHotNewStuff

Can you change the download link so it points straight to the file instead of to your website? ATM I think it's impossible to upgrade to the new version using SuperKaramba's Get New Stuff button. Otherwise, thanks for the nice theme! I never liked having to check the BBC site every day.

freezes at splash

hi. i am trying to use liquid weather version 12.1. When i open it the splash screen displays and it says loading... however, it never gets past this piont, it just sits here and never loads. this happens with versions 12.2 and 11 as well. Am i missing a required library or something? Any help would be great. Thanks.

posted. sorry it took so long.

Great work, but ...

... I have two big issues about this plug-in:

1. It should be possible to turn off the notification window that pops up when Liquid Weather fails to download weather information. This notification is really annoying because on my system SuperKaramba and its themes start automatically with KDE, but I often don't have an Internet connection at that time - so more often than not, I get that annoying notification when it's pretty obvious to me that I don't have a network connection at all.

2. Animations are really sluggish on my system, making some of the theme's features barely useable.

Nonetheless, I like Liquid Weather a lot because it looks great and has nice features.

Those are both good points, and I'll add something to fix them shortly.

Re: Re: Great work, but

Wohoo, complaining does help after all! :-)
This will make your plugin a great deal more useable for many users.
There's still that animation when clicking the temperature for the "minimal" view which I can't turn off, though ...
But thanks anyway!

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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